Thinking and Exploring Ideas · B4 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B4.2.1.1.4 - Generate own ideas for composing and performing own artworks that will reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and describe at least three natural and three manmade objects or features observed in their school or community surroundings.
Demonstrate and imitate the movement patterns of at least two natural objects and two manmade objects observed during an outdoor walk.
Produce and record sounds that imitate natural and manmade objects found in their community using voice, body percussion or simple materials.
Generate and present at least two original performance ideas (for music, dance, drama or poetry) based on the movements and sounds they have collected.
Work in groups to plan a short performance piece that reflects the natural and manmade environments of their own community.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (2.1)
Content standard: B4.2.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions about the people based on their history and culture, the environment and topical local/national/global issues
Indicator: B4.2.1.1.4 - Generate own ideas for composing and performing own artworks that will reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 7 (Week 7 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 32
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- go on out-of-the-classroom walks to observe natural and manmade things in the surroundings;
- observe the movement patterns of natural and manmade objects (e.g. animals, birds, trees, vehicles, bicycles, rims of tyres, people);
- listen to sounds created by natural and manmade objects (e.g. moving vehicles, whistles, birds, flowing rivers/streams, drums, rain drops, wind);
- record the movement and sounds of natural and manmade objects that interest the
learners;
- study and analyse the movements and sounds observed, listened to or recorded;
- think about own collection of movement and sound patterns and use them to generate ideas for planning own music, dance, drama or poetry compositions and performances.